Tuesday, January 09, 2007

Having beer with Marilyn (fellow graduate student) is always educational but when she starting talking about transfats in milk I was like," hello?! trans fats are only a result of synthetic hydrogenation of vegatable oils!"

Apparently Marilyn was right.From Marilyn:

hey guys, I was not in the field...

there is naturaly occuring trans fat in animal products like meat and dairy, butthose are good for you.

''Trans fat can be found in vegetable shortenings, some margarines, crackers,candies, cookies, snack foods, fried foods, baked goods, and other processed foodsmade with partially hydrogenated vegetable oils. Small amounts of naturallyoccurring trans fat can be found in some animal products, such as butter, milkproducts, cheese, beef, and lamb.''http://www.cfsan.fda.gov/~dms/qatrans2.html

I pretty much have been proven wrong. However I have an issue with the notion that there are healthy transfats. The only reason the cited article gives that naturally occurring transfats are healthy is that they are natural. No proof.Perhaps getting transfats exclusively from natural sources is okay however, but only because they are in such low abundance.

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